The United States maintains its prestigious position of the largest threat to global peace. With some of the weak responses coming out it’s looking like the prohibition on the use of force is fading into history.

It’s a failure of Australian politics that Zohran Mamdani has a cursory knowledge of Drew Pavlou’s existence

Recently had the joy of presenting some of my PhD work at a workshop. During discussion, I got some constructive feedback that I initially disagreed with, only to sit with it and realise they were right. THANK YOU SO MUCH! THIS ARTICLE IS SO MUCH BETTER NOW

Well, that COP was pointless. Can’t wait for the next one, which will undoubted be the most pointless one yet

Not the Group of Eight leading Australian uni’s signing a letter of support in favour of the proposed amendments to the EPBC Act, when all of their respective law schools are writing submissions pointing out how many flaws the amendments have Uni admins remain deeply out of touch from their staff

The show-and-dance around #COP31 is, quite frankly, embarrassing. The COPs are supposed to be about collaboration, working together to figure out how we limit global warming to 1.5°. If we can’t agree on a venue, how the hell are we going to agree on a pathway to 1.5°

Last night, I had the pleasure of participating in the @lsca.bsky.social Global Day of Action, presenting some of the Australian Team’s preliminary findings regarding the work Australian Law firms do that exacerbates climate change. Report anticipated in early 2026 🌳🫡

Who on Bluesky is at #COP30 and giving on the ground updates? Last year my Twitter was full of round-the-clock scholarly discourse on the NCQG at #COP29. Now? Silence It’s such a loss to scholarship that Elon destroyed Twitter this badly

New pub alert 🚨 #DisasterRecovery #climatechange “Shared responsibility” is a loaded phrase for Community Sector Organisations who often fill the space where government fails after disasters. In this article we interview representatives from CSOs and find that “shared responsibility” is a 1/3

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New episode! Australia’s new 2035 climate target - credible or cosmetic? 🌏⚖️ Join Ntina Tzouvala, Julia Dehm & Christy Clark as they unpack what international law (and the ICJ’s climate opinion) really demand. #CalledToTheBar soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

Dave album is wildly disappointing Carried by James Blake. What a shame, man

Manuscript accepted 🥰

The quality of first year law assignments is the worst I have ever seen this semester…

The first question to every politician tomorrow must be: “Now that the UN says Israel is committing genocide, what actions will your government take to fulfil its obligations to prevent genocide?”

I never considered that, when writing an assignment requiring students to use the Australian Consumer Law, that I would need to look at the Australian Consumer Law to mark it 😭

I passed my PhD Confirmation today 🫡🫡

Free Palestine

Prepping some serious cringe for my PhD Confirmation next week

PhD confirmation docs submitted 🫡

Sensational month we’ve had music wise Clipse 10/10 JID 10/10 Ethel Cain 10/10

Wigney J: “The only avenue to those at risk of climate harm is public advocacy and protest…” 🚨Banger from The Federal Court🚨 In all seriousness, the Pabai Pabai decision is devastating, and highlights how unseriously Australia continues to take climate change

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At what stage during a PhD do you stop wanting to bash your head into a wall?

Nothing quite like finishing a book chapter on how the ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion might work out, only for the ICJ to say they’ll give their opinion before it’s published 😭

Met @purplepingers.bsky.social at the QLD Socialists launch last night As you can expect, the Nazi’s on twitter are being very normal about this photo lmao

Any advice for what to do when you’re finishing an article, and then re-run your searches to pick up any new research, only to find out SCOPUS updated last night and now your search returns 949 additional articles? Like come on 😭 I used 5 different databases to avoid this. And yet

Oomfs all having a great time at #ANZSIL2025, and I’m getting “unplanned internet outages” while coding articles in NVIVO 😪

This is who is marking your exams

Hey Env Minister Watt, did you decide whether to wave this new coal mine through, or not?

In need of an Adorno-head to explain negative dialectics in a way that doesn't make me feel insanely stupid x

My first time hearing The Beach Boys was when we immigrated to Australia. My Dad drove my brother and I to a beach in a van playing a Beach Boys Greatest Hits CD that got stuck in the player Brian Wilson is tied to my coming to Australia. I cherish him and those memories

Unfortunately, you can’t protect oceans while subsidising gas and coal expansion. No ocean is safe from climate change — in Australia or anywhere else. #Climate #Auspol #LossAndDamage #OceansNotOffsets www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Crazy how you see the cops talk about it, then very clearly aim at her before shooting

News this past week: - World begs 🇮🇱 to feed Gazans - 🇮🇱 shares a video claiming that “Hamas” is shooting Gazans at aid distribution centres - 🇺🇸 vetos ceasefire - Israeli MP says 🇮🇱 put ISIS in Gaza, armed them, and told them to kill starving civilians - 🇮🇱 unlawfully stops aid ship heading to Gaza

The second half of Little Simz’ new album is some of her best ever work. Wow

I bet that Board seat at Woodside Energy is just about locked in now, huh Murray Watt? The North West Shelf is expected to emit 4.3 billion tonnes of emissions. President Kingham rejected the Waratah Coal mine on human rights grounds for having 50% of those emissions.

Next on the PhD adjacent reading list 🫡

Australian Progressive Legal Studies is back with a call for papers on the law and political economy of contemporary authoritarianism. If you want to help us understand WTF is going on, send us your abstract by the 11th of July. We are-ahem-low budget, so we can only help with domestic travel.

"credible" is a particularly interesting word choice. It implies that they think there could be a good reason to withhold aid, but that Israel's current excuses lack reasoning. Withholding aid from civilian populations in during armed conflicts is a war crime www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

A, quite frankly, mental LinkedIn post from the former President of the President of the Queensland Court of Appeal

no man has better earned the title of Mr. Movies

Officially finished marking my non-invigilated assessment for the semester Nearly 10% had AI flags

Europe so funny. I have family in Portugal who didn’t even realise there was a power outage, because they were busy drinking wine in the sun with friends

Taught critical race theory to my first years today and they were surprisingly engaged and receptive Very pleasant teaching experience Whole cohort of critical legal theorists coming soon!

Getting to read for a living often feels like a privilege. Today is not one of those days

Teaching my Intro to Law students how to write a case note. One student opens the case, takes 2 looks at it, then comes over to tell me they’re dropping out So real bestie

Talking about Referendums in my Introduction to Law class. We used the 1999 referendum about Australia becoming a Republic I put the question to them. Only 3 people in my 41-person class thought Australia should become a Republic

a few years in the making: our special issue on the IPE of Green Finance is complete! 🧵on its content: 1. Sarah Sharma and I wrote a (long) editorial introducing the idea of a green finance ecosystem and calling for a 'deep engagement' of IPE w. gr. finance 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...